When Justice Department officials anonymously floated the idea of prohibiting gun possession by transgender people last week, they may have hoped to score points with President Donald Trump’s base or get a rise out of “woke” Democrats.
Instead, they elicited howls of outrage from every major gun rights group.
It is not hard to see why. This half-baked proposal, which has no obvious statutory basis, is flagrantly inconsistent with “the right of the people” to “keep and bear arms” — a right that Trump claims he is keen to protect.
The immediate impetus for internal discussions of disarming transgender Americans was the Aug. 27 shooting that killed two children and injured 21 other people at the Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis.
Police identified the perpetrator, who killed herself after attacking the worshipers, as a 23-year-old transgender woman.
CNN reported that “Justice Department leadership is seriously considering whether it can use its rulemaking authority” to “declare that people who are transgender are mentally ill and can lose their Second Amendment rights to possess firearms.” It quoted an unnamed Justice Department official who explained that the goal would be to “ensure that mentally ill individuals suffering from gender dysphoria are unable to obtain firearms while they are unstable and unwell.”
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